The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress: Practical Skills for Teachers (The Essential Guides)

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Finding it difficult to juggle the many challenges of the teaching profession? Bill Rogers, world-renowned expert in classroom management and teacher stress, focuses on peer-support to show you how to reduce stress levels, achieve a work-life balance and be a successful classroom teacher in The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress.  This is your definitive guide to coping with the stresses of the teaching profession and is designed to confront stress-causing factors in positive, supportive and practical ways. Whether it’s the behaviour of a challenging class, the volume of paperwork or difficult relationships with colleagues causing you stress, Bill Rogers has the advice you need to make a difference. Cover The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress Contents About the author Acknowledgements Reviews Introduction The dimensions of teacher stress The physiology of stress: what it does to us A lesson in London: stress in the classroom Beliefs, emotions, stress and our daily reality Anxiety and worry Anger: beyond frustration A behaviour management and discipline plan at the classroom level Part A – Key elements, practices and skills Part B – Balancing skills and practices Difficult and challenging students: follow-up and support Hard-to-manage classes: a collegial response Mentoring support for professional development in behaviour leadership Colleague support: auditing for stress and supporting one other Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index